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Performing and Processing FNA of Anterior Fat Pad for Amyloid
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October 30, 2010
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1Department of Pathology,Medical College of Wisconsin, 2Current Address: Department of Pathology,Wayne State University School of Medicine Detroit Medical Center, 3Department of Neurology,Medical College of Wisconsin, 4Department of Medicine,Medical College of Wisconsin, 5Division of Neoplastic Diseases and Related Disorders,Medical College of Wisconsin
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Fat pad aspiration is a preferred, minimally invasive, and low cost approach as compared to other methods to detect amyloid for diagnosis of systemic amyloidosis. This video article demonstrates a procedural outline for performing fat pad aspiration with appropriate processing of the specimen for the optimal diagnostic outcome.
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Shidham, V. B., Hunt, B., Jaradeh, S. S., Barboi, A. C., Devata, S., Hari, P. Performing and Processing FNA of Anterior Fat Pad for Amyloid. J. Vis. Exp. (44), e1747, doi:10.3791/1747 (2010).
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